The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

hey

Sup

It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies

do you remember puffgames

the shitty flashgame website

No

can't say that I ever did.

The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.

I remember Nitrome.

was it one of those ones that just ripped games from other sites?

The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s to enable time-sharing of computers.

puffgames wuz ye

i would play it during class in 3rd grade whenever the teacher wasn't looking

Wasn't nitrome the one with pixel art and stuff

The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s.

Yeah, they had a Steam Release for one of their projects. I don't know where they are now though.

i played strategy games becuz you could pause them and tab out really quick

I used to want to get a job doing pixel art with nitrome

I wonder if they paid people or if it was a volunteer thing

The funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial extensions, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks.

I don't know.

The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s marked the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet,

thats why i started playing starcraft because it was a strategy game but i wasnt very good at it and the poorly animated cinematics between the levels always scared me shitless as a kid

I think it was a paid thing... like an actual dev team

and generated a sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to the network. Although the Internet was widely used by academia in the 1980s, commercialization incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life.

i lost my install discs awhile ago

That is unfortunate.

Yeah that sucks

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Most traditional communication media, including telephony, radio, television, paper mail and newspapers are reshaped, redefined, or even bypassed by the Internet

What are you guys doing anyway?

giving birth to new services such as email, Internet telephony, Internet television, online music, digital newspapers, and video streaming websites. Newspaper, book, and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging, web feeds and online news aggregators.

i dunno. playing some flash games

Looking at my Steam library

I'm kinda high right now

The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking.

Oh.

cool

Online shopping has grown exponentially both for major retailers and small businesses and entrepreneurs, as it enables firms to extend their "brick and mortar" presence to serve a larger market or even sell goods and services entirely online. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.

puffgames does exist still

its even worse than i remember

That's cool... send me a link

The Internet has no single centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own policies.

I need to go.

Goodnight.

The overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address (IP address) space and the Domain Name System (DNS), are directed by a maintainer organization,

we still on for pathfinder tomorrow

Yes, 5pm.

cool

the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),

Ciao.

cya

Can you resend the puffgames link

a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.[5] In November 2006, the Internet was included on USA Today's list of New Seven Wonders.

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dude just look it up